THE DRUNKAREMTORY
,
"sr T=ol,ll Down snosmin. ^
In a street of New Ydrk oity, eastward
- erardly from Broadway,
I wan walking one fine morning, ruminating in
an odd way,
Oa the3orld and its vexations, Bross to,
o Bee, troubles,
On the changes of Gelato:lee, on ambit ion and
it. bubble.,
When I saw toward me coming, slow meander
tag on the sidewalk,
First to curbstone, then to door-step, in a zigzag
crooked wide wilt,
_ Such a wretched, ragged fellow, steeped in Wm
ery and liquor,
That I dodged behind a lamp-poet, so the men
might pane me quicker:
Now, I think no less of idaverm, In the general
than dregs) , men ;
_But thin of ragged ••grantin wan. ea notable •
specimen,
With his nether garment* fractured, and his coat
es rent and tattered,
With his shoes so very rusty and his enmities.
het so battered—
Though NI figure and appearance three 101 l
nothing very new in,
Making but a common finger post upen the road
tlte
That I d him while I pitied his forlorn
• and base condition,
Like • Pharisee rejnieing,l wee not in hie pos
i ion.
.Tie a Common observation which from some old
writer cribbed le—
"Should you try to dyer from Scylla, you may
run upon Chatabd Is"—
And as i ground him dodging, tried on lother
aide to place me,
But a sudden lurch to leewatd, right about be
turned to face me ; "
.lad, with agravity of visage and an air of
mock decorum,
•lour friendly and I know it, and I want
another Jorum.
To be drunk is to be happy, to be happy I am
willing,
get entirely blissful, if you'll lend your
friend a chilling
EMS
"Oh, you needn't turn your nom up, nor px
, plode with Indignation,
Nor commence a precy
l ecture on my moral d
grndatt on,
I'mlittle bit in liquo, admit ; but that's n
matter,
I hare no resource but whiskey, thronging mam
mies to walla,
Too' I au a wretched drunkard—l am stink,
past sounding distance.
an a sailor shame and horror—am a blot upon
ea isteace
gut when once I am in liquor then a show of
Joy comes to mt. :
Then I loose the rune of morter'y with is fearful
ponds and gloomy.
sqtl4 I once bed friends and kinsfolk; I was
h in estimaaion-
By my ne hbors and my towpsruen cc • pillar
of t e nation-•
Yes a staunch and trusty pillor,one w hem peo
ple always rail en,
Poribad my 'hundredthousand,' and •ttowt•
Blom mansion alsd,
And I had p inns graatar.—wite and (4111
dren—never fdirer„;
Ellen, patient, lowly „ latrig—why, with whom
might I compere her? - •
George, my boy, my darling prattler—Ellen
blue eyed like ber mother—
These made up my happy houenbuld—rould lh.
world find Nock an o ther ?
n think you have all flrnme•s, that my
of..`DO you no'or will follqw ;
That yew feet will never flounder in the mule
wherein I wallow.
/30 thought Cmy sneering neighbor; hod some
prophel„ for a tiatim
To the whisky4rottle doomed me, ten to ono
but I had kicked him.
:What ! a slave to base indulgence! crowned by
each • hat aa that bat !
Ttl hare laughed at
. all ruch nomen•e, yet ye,
gee my situation,
-Awing I am now yon maybe, though you drink
In moderation.
e•Moderation I ugh! what folly! es the whirl.
wind to be quiet;
Speak of peace smto the tempest, gilt in drink
ing novertry it.
Home of appetite the lion, and though (riende
and guards attend yen,
iFrom hie lair the beset will leap out when you
Inset expect, and rend you.
I wee moderate in drinking, but my chain of
limit lengthened
Seeding on its oonetant pFactice,d•y by day the
habit strengthened.
'Fortune lied me, friends abandoned, darkened
all the skies above me ;
Save poor Ellen and her children there wu no
• tone left to love me
'Oh, those yeas of maddest revel, wkln good
follows aatheside me,
When with glazing words they fed me, when
with flattery they plied me,
Till I sank me deeper, deeper, in a vast abyss
►Vevey heeding that my dljlingn faded certainly
though elowly.
1110 roil blame ale that I adly meek my lathe
draught in liquor?
what i 4 re I that it may bring,mo to my doled
end the quicker ?
hit my frie,Ads with wealth departed, none aro
tell fa mourn my dying;
In the Potter's Field unheeded are my wife and
children lying.
Mn' may talk about romanuee—if they want •
.harp eensation,
tlAt them got the real etory of a drunkard'.
degradation ;
.01 • the 0.2110 that sober moments bring. with
agony to fill him,
And the hearer gets a novel that will Intermit
said thrill him.
Heil I time or bad you patieisce,of ouch terrible
thieve I'd tell you,
That although you might deepive me. yet to pity
%would compel you,
llot, thank you for that whaling—while I
live I would be merry ;
When I die there's one mere paliper for tie on
bor folk to bury."
ftsoriger Mill no doubt Inn story had I stayed to
listen to it—
Itet•l 'save the wretch hie shilling though 'tyres
daubtless wrong to do It,
LelLiing 4310 to eeek the dram-shop, there to
drown hie troubles.. think ing,
• While I wondered would I ever, through my
moderate way of drinking,
.141 o k .0 low in my debasement no the wretch
from whom I'd parted,
'Make my eh ildrenamtlfer hunger, and my wife
dio broken hearted ;
And, although his maudlin sermon seemed in
my case to be wasted,
, Vol, that day the g W. of sherry at my dinner
(Y went untested
Dpa.Land mouths ham, I had mot him; Mocks
and politics and cotton
All combined to make my drunkard and hie
tale of woe forgotten .
But th in morning's daily paper, while creole
domestic noting,
Told bow some one on the river found n dead
man's body floating.
In h le age be seemed pall forty—face and rags
the drunkard showing—
Yet within the wretch ninnel angel kept a spark
of feeling glowing ;
For upOn hie clammy bosom, like the token of a
lover,
Lay wing le golden ringlet, "Ellen" written on
its cover
JHE REPUBLIC.
AncßEes DE HON. G. li. PENDLETON
/i•N0 1 1a OF Till PSISENT AND flora mpg Till
ES=
Mon. George H. Pendleton, by invitation
of the Demooratio Club of Urbana, Ohlo,
made an addres, in that city on Thursday
evening Incl. In Use course of his remsrla
In the spring of 1862, almost before the
acOve operations cf the war had commenc
ed, a gentleman addressing ► New England
adlence on its onuses, purposes and program
said :
4 , 1 were you, 'flat none of you will ever
again see the Farmer Republic under which
you were born."
Re is as accomplished speaker,to elo
quent &deo:Mate, a learned scholar, th type
of a elan, the pioneer of a eohoel. Wealth.
and leasuri had enabled him for many
lours to borrault his tuts in the mode and
•purposes of his life,and as be himself beam
-tad in•• lecture in the oily of Washington,
in the presence of bk. - Lincoln and mem•
ben of hie Cabinet, he had devoted it for
nineteen yearn to the disruption of the
American Union and the overthrow of the
Constitution which formed it.
"I warnyou that non, of you will ear
again see theFanner Republic under whloti
ton were born."
glit,Pt.niott4tit'',i'kil:4lthtuan,
VOL. XII
While Mr Sewonl thus, on behalg of the
,;overnineni, porireyild the Gains of the war
thio prophet—
.Prophet seal it, thing of evil ;
Prophet still, if bird or doll."
ilairned that the revalutiofil wee pro
reseing—t hal„ike result. were certain—and
warned his bearers to be ready to see Mai
"old things had peered away,and ell things
had become new
I Jo not qiieetion 'viii - ^nrotivee, nor im
peach his purposes, nor inquire into the
,sources of LH information. Did he speak
truly? Thie In the question tg r oight.
Farmer Itepobbc—Not free republio, not
powerful fepittilic; net warlkhe republic, not
growing republic, nor liberty loving repub
lican It lean expreseive name. Farmer,
the synonym of honesty,eimplicity,frugali
ey, abundance, independence; the ideal of
labor without exhaustion, of luxury with
out effieminacy, of providence without cor
roding care,cf,octivity without hurry, of
leisure witho'al idleness, of (reelect with
out Leine°, of purity without biorty, - of
independence vritliont intolerance, of that
spirit at oncelliqeful and humble, which
g ro ws o ut of the eier recurring realization,
at all times unit in 611 vicissitudes, of the
fulfillment of the promise that "while the
eartirtemaineth need time and h t, and
summer and winter, and colLiAnd heal, and
day and night ailsil not cease "
Will not analyse closely oui system: of
government, it endgred from 1780 tilllB6o.
Shall I recount its history• Shallf remind
you that at flimt it met with serious opp cd-
Lion, but that wisely administered, it pr
Its beneficence and fixed itself firmly in
he hearts of the people—that it waged
wale of odnquest and ware of defence—that
II felt the evils of domestic ffissention— that
It encountered tfe perils of neutrality, and
all the difficulties for a struggle for com
mercial supremacy, and all the vicissitudes
of natioual life, and that. this constitution
of Goverment. wits sufficient for all these
•
things ? 4
shall I tell you the story which hangs on
my lips—that obeying lawful authority,
observing the precepts of paternal aflec-
lion, exorcising moderation trod kindness,
and, above all, revering the patriotism and
the virtues of the fathers, and seeking to
imitate them, these &Idea and these peo-
Die wooed the genius of wiadom, and found
indeed, "its was are way. of pleasantness,
and nil its paths are peace," that liberty
was In mansion and in cottage, in city and
in country, that prosperity crowned the
husbandman and the artisan, and the mer
chant, that wealth and power, and science,
and art, and learning end religion, and the
kindly charities of a robust and manly phi
lanthropy, did constant homage in their
rapid development to the beneficence of the
Farmer Republic'
And has it passed away'
Why should not this system, so lull of
blessings, have satisfied the aspiration of
our people? Why the perpetual longing of
the human mind to leave the well known
track, and to encounter the perils of inno
vation sad experiment!
Durinethe alosiug years of this period
great dissetis fscfoo wall our political lye-
tem manifested itself It was popular to l the had• peaceful confederation Now,
propose radios' change fill the government iyhile national unity is inculcated an the
established by the fat rill. The dent a- 1 highest duty, the perpetuation ofgeograph-
L i on we. made ,1,,,,t t, e IV.i ou or in i,, i . 10 1 divisions end national hatred is rewar
..holliagltlftricon slave balding States affuld de //with the highest praise. Congress,
not endure, although such a Union had i w Ch wee the theatre of intellectual de
been ne brilliantly nucceseful for three . le, is now the registry of the decrees of a
quarters of a century. Light had sudden y party caucus. and hesitation to record them
broke in upon the mind. Tho wisdom of • treason to the reigning power, and la
the past had become darkness before the wolves loss of personal preferment, even of
surpassing effulgence shed upon the pres- , Political life We have erhken down the
sot.
, lumen which hemmed in that vont array
,
A myetcal "higher Inn" bad been • • of powers—closely akin to merebrute force
covered—by its uncertainestandurd our ' .l —which we believed the government, and
&Rottene in the future were to be la I ran society, could not, in any event, jost
led. The Constitution in certain rely eta ly exercise, end have given them an the
infringed it, and to so for was the Constitu : plaything of every passion. We had a re
tion to be spurned and diregarded. I• iepublic ; we have an empire
Diecontent finalir-took form and notion in
secession and coercion. These were but
the manifestations of an underlying spirit.
On the one side and on the other Uwes as
serted that the struggle was for territorial
limits only. Neither was entirely correct,
for both were actuated by the revolutionary
spirit, and the firing of the firet gun on
Fort Sumter was as the voice of • seer
declaring that a revolution had been so
complished.
The old political system passed away In
186 l; and another was adopted. Its little
linger is heavier than the whole body of
that which it superseded. No longer do we
ask"have we"..agunment ItsArguseyes
~.seek everywhere the accumulation of labor
and a Thal, and ita Brierean arms are ever
grasping all those eyes can see Its vast
military and naval establishments have ris
en' with porteutious mein, and overshadow
the civil administrations in nearly one half
the country.
Beneath the blows of their iron sway .
popular government, resting on the consent,
of the people, has there completely fallen
Its vital energy is apparent wherever we
see strife and contention, and violent pan
along and antagonisms of race, and see
liens and States. Its genius and humanity
are conspicuous wherever healing wounds
are made to gape afresh, and to receive a
new infusion of gall and bitterness. There
is no doubt that we have a government—a
strong one—strong in the number of men
whom it can conscript; Wrong in the 'treel
ure it con raise by taxation; strong in its
power to invade the rights of the States
ind the liberties of the citizen: strong In
its capanity to override the constitution;
strong as Rome was strong, both east and
west, under the Emperors i strong as France
was 'Wong under the Reign of Terror and
the guillotine ; but weak as they were weak
when the Goth■ sod Vandals avenged en
the seven billed city the wrong of Germans,
or when the blood of the murdered Denton
choked the despairing Robespierre.
The equality of the Stales was ,ha. basis
of the Farmer Republic. le it maintains&
The answer comes to us from the reoon
etruction bill, which puteden States ander
martial law, and sabjeote them to the will
of•a military officer.
The strict confinement of the Fedora
government to international and inter-
State affairs nu an element of the Farmer
}jepublio. Is it enforced T The answer
comes to us from .the rights bltlywhich
intrudes federal authority upon the States
and utterly overrides lbe most sacred son
;Motional guarantees. •
TLe maintemanee of the eo-ordh>,te
branches of as government, the diatribe
IMIN
tion of power, the sepevation of conetiluen
ales from which It fielrer, were Indispensibie
features of the Farmer tiapublio. Their
doom woo written in the tenure of office bill
which deprives the President of the power
of removing even members of his Cabinet,
and thus subjects the Executive to the
control of the Legislature. Their doom
was written in' the attack on on the Sup
'rome Court, bscaute of its deoission in re
lation to the military commissions All
powermew conteis in a single hand, and.is
confirmed by a coneolipated majority.'
ReVerenos for the Constitution marked
the era dike Fanner Republic,and warmed
the butane of all its children. Now, who so
poor as to entertain this sentiment? It Wan
rolled up add packed &WA). tly Mr. Lincoln,
and kept thus dishonored, it has fallen into
contempt, and to urge its authority serves
only to proioke • sneer, or to call out a
joke It forms ho barrier to the project. of
party rage or party desire. Lie prbvisions
are entirely disregarded,or immediately al
tered td justify the enactment . plopMed, or
to command the attainment of the end. The
highest respect shown to his remain. is IJi
proposition to amend them The. strife Of
parties, which wan once under the Constitu
lion, is now over and above it.
Powers granted to the Federal govern
ment Is it not true that every power
which is desired to be exercised is found to
be granted, and that more would be tound
if necessary. Once we believed a funda
mental law, guiding legislation and con
taining the muniments of personal liberty
—so sacred that under no circumstances
could it be Infringed, or even amended, ex
cept in the method prescribed—to be men-,
tial to free government. Now we have wil
lingly dispensed with t, and committed tin_
limitteel power to a temporary majority,and
this we call flippantly, the will of the rt_
lion.
Tell me, does onevingle feature of the
Farmer Republio remain! We had a plain
and simple and economical government.
We, bad light taxes - r<e have _enormous
burtheus. We had gold and silver se legal
tender ; we have a depreciated government
paper currency We had trial by jury and
personal liberty ; we have military commis
sions made valid by law,•and arbitrary ar
rests justified. We had a government
whose exactions of money crDty were es
light that we scarcely felt its existence ; we
have a government whose treogth glitter?
in the light of the burnished bayonet, and
is reflected in the resplendent lustre of the
sword: We had harmony and fraternal
concord, and due respect for States and
people and opinions and habits ; we have a
bitter sectional strife, subjugated people,
overthrown States, and an animosity ofpar
ty warfare never before known. We had
freedom of thought ; we havean intolerance
which strikes down Independence of opin
ion and prescribe. political differences an a
crime, and establishes a searching scruti
ny into the heart■ and Consciences of the
community. We heard in 'Our bitterest
struggles the voice of reason ; now that
voice is drowned in the clangor of the
trumpet which marshals prejudice, and
rage and bate t 9 intensify the party strife
Slavery has perished ; all history tells
us that it cannot be re established in thin
age in this country- It in Dug.. bounden
duty to recognise this great social change;
to ameliorate whatever evils may be inci
dent, to it, and so far as possible, to pre
pare the freedmen for the dieWitarge of the
new dude' which are being dennlved upon
them But, gentlemen, if this revolution
is to go on, and the present nystem of gov
ernmenk in to be continued, then' has our
liberty perished with it ; and we hove re
alised the prediotion of a profound thinker
and a brilliant writer, who, twenty years
ago. predicted that It would be written °vet
the grave of our political institutions •
"Here lies a people who, in order to give
freedom to three millions of Africans, de
stroyed their own liberty "
Mr. Webster, years ago, bad occasion to
discuss the name subject, and with that
pomP and splendor of diction which mark•
eel all his political addressee, be sold•
~ O ther misfortunes may be born, or their
effects overcome. If war should sweep our
commerce from the ocean, another genera
tion may renew It ; if it exhaust our treas
ury future industry may replenish it ; if it'
desolace an d lay waste our field., still un
der a gevelittltivation, they will grow green
again, and ripen to future harvests."
"It were but a trifle, even, if the wane of
yonder Capitol were to crumble, if its lofty
pillars should fall, and its gorgeous decors
lions be covered by the dust of the valley.
But who Atli reconstruet the fabric of de
moliebed goVernment T Who shall rear
again the well proportioned columns of
constitutional liberty 1 Who shall frame
together the ekillful architecture whioh
unites Rational Sovereignty with Slate
Rights, individual security with public
prosperity I Now, if these columns obeli
fall, they shall be reared not again. Like
the Coliseum and the Parthenon they will
be destined to a melatioltely, mournful im
mortality. Bitterer tears, however, will
flow over them than were ever 'bed on the
monuments of Roman or Grecian Art, for
they will be the remnants of a more glori
ous edifice than Greece or Rome ever saw—
the edifies of Constitutional AmeGoan Lib
erty."
Gentlemen, I feel the for,* of these words.
I know that others feel them more deeply,
perhaps{ than I. I see among many good
men a Medium , to despair. I see ong
qty own friends, those who agwan_ma me
generally on pubile affairs, a disposition to
give up all for lost. They haws lost .hope
they have lost courage-,their derpedanoy
eminsels Inaction. The ewspemirs, the
public speeebei, but ab? , all, the prints
onversations, indicate th feeling. •
"STATE HOSTS AND I ZDEP eL lINION.''
BELLEFONTE, PA.,
Glentlemen, I do not sympathize with it.
I have high hopes (Jr the future. I see the
dangers that are before ue I see a long
and weary way. I see 111 long and exhaust
ing struggle, in which sdeceis inry
from the one side :o the other Id, not
conceal from myself that . it may be a •strug
gle of the sword. Marty °fits may_go down
with the harness rein the 'midst of the
fight, but hope fills my heart,landl the mag
nitride of the prizes nerves my arm..
'lbe reaction wall surely eme All his
tory, atllphilettophxzAeclare It. It has come
to all other nationsit will copueter ef up,„ It
has some, sometimes„ clothed in fli; white
robes of peace, sometimes with its garment,
dyed in blood.
In every country there has bier? • party
of - power and against it. In every country
there have been men who loved liberty as
They loved virtue, arid honor and truth,;
men who Would avenge its wrongs, creels's@
they would prote!t the virtue of the wife of
their,bosom, or the honor of the mother
who bore them." Liberty inspires the soul.
Its sacred fires forever burn amid its epos:
ties and defenders. When peaceful means
are exhausted, it draws the sword. Let ite
enemies, then, beware, whether they sit in
single solitude on a throne, or crowd the
market placet, jwdl be with us..
Our peitr7lt; desire to be wise and virtu
ous Our country is young and rich, and
strong Experience will not teach its pain
ful lessons in vain The splendid recol
lections of-the past have not entirely passed
sway Its vestiges are not all buried in
the ruin of the present The hopes of the
future are bright in the reflection of its ex
piring gleries. They will accelerate
counterrevolution. Let MAligently pre
pare the way. It is wisdom to accept ac
complished facts. It is folly to abOrtlon
correct principles in the inonteut of 'their
adversity. I'mneiples are eternal—institu.
lions of government are-but. instrumentali
ties—facts vary as the d s bcceed cacti
other, and seem to change ehidding of
_
the fickle moon. _
Let U 9 hold fast to principle+, le us
modify Institutions, let us recognize the
changing phases of facts, It Is the office.
wise men to adopt just principles of govern
ment by the aid of fit institutions to every
condition of affairs. Liberty is the great
good. Celfederation is to be sought only
because it has aided to maintain it,
Crn-
Lrilization is to be avoided only because it
has alwaya destroyed it But at last, lib
erty is the life, the emit, and government is
the form, the body through which It is de
veloped
Let us, gentlemen, look al the past only
that we may select what is good and avoid
what is evil, that we may from its experie
nce catch the inspiration of a wise progress,
that we may so school our hearts to the
lessons of moderation and truth that put
riotism and wisdom may guide the courses
of the inevitible react ion, and lead us back
from the perils of centralised imperialism,
to the safety of • confedfrtition, founded,
supported and restrained by the ehecksand
balances of a wise non titution.
Thus if we can not restore the Farmer
Republic, we can at least regain the bles
sings of liberty regulated by law, and of
law enacted and maintained by the spirit
of virtuous liberty.
D. H„HILL ON THE SITUATION.-TOO
RHEUMATIC TO TURN SOMER
SAULTS.
The following 'wentiments of General I)
If Hill, who like Lee, Early, Jenkins,
Sharkey, Perry, Marlin, Clanton, and a
host of others, was an original opponent
of secession, Sr. taken from editorials in
the May number of "The Land We Love :"
The diefranehised class hare oo political
espirations and no lamentation over their
situation There is not one of them who is
not willing to hive, •s a ruler, no original
Union man of principle and integrity, such
se Moore, of North Car6lina , Perry, of
South Carolina; Jenkins, of Georgia; and
Sharkey, of NI teitiesippi. Sot we fear that
we may get an old fire-eater, newly dressed
up in the star epangldd banner, with an
eagle feather in hie hat, who says Yankee
Doodle as a grace before meal, and Hail
Columbia as a thankegi•ing after it. Bet
ter • Military ruler for a century tlyan a
single term of such'a man' The military
ruler has no partisans to reward, and no
animosities to gratify
The fair presumption is, that he will be
just and impartial, hush:ern° controlling
motive but a scone of duty., There is not
one of the fire districts in so unhappy a
condition to-daJ as to Tennessee to the
Utivori
It becomes, then, the imperatiZe duty of
voters to choose true men, not turn-coats
and weathercocks men whose consistent
truiqpisin will bo satisfactory to the domi
nant party Such men as Governors, Rep
resentatives, and Legislators, who will not
be intent upon personal aggrandizement
and building up a party, but will utrivo
earnestly to promote the happiness and
prosperity of their sorely disturbed, per
plexed and impoverished country
M * * s * if
The Xrihodat of New York Bays he re
greta to perceive that the land loved by the
editor of thie magasine ia not the whole
United States, but only • rather ti
uublN
soma section of it. Our colemporary wrote
a kind letter, proposing an exchange ; we
cordially accepted his offer. We candidly
confess that we have a great liking for our
Methodist brethren. They made suchsplen
did rebels ! Why a rebel Methodiethad no
more fear in him than a wild Irishman from
Tipperary. From this attack upon no, we
Judge that the Northern Methodist belongs
also tfi o khe Church sithiser. However, as
°min Le under Sag of truce was so
not Ily reprobated by both side. we
rather incline to think that our worthy
friend belonged to the "Home Guards" and
not the army In the field.
A lady who had written a nails valuable
book, once told us that an unfavorable emit
totem of her book would be more acceptable
than the usual stereotyped phrases of com
mendation, which proved that •the critic
had not even cut the pages of the book he
professed tereview.
It is plain to us that our excellent °elem.
porary had not read our Magazine. For
although we are exceedingly national, yet
we are not aware of manifesting any special
partiality for Massachusetts ; so-that' we
cannot be justly aaeused of unduly levies
..the troubles me section of the tfitited
States."
RIDAY, MAY 31, 1867
,„,,,Iforeover, we are getting old, and we
have heen.afflicted with:rheumatisavasaong
time—which affliction rebel campaigning
for four years diithbt much improve Ile
have not, therefore, the astonishing net
ey' of some of our friends in pixie, and c in
not, then, make such beat somersaults as,
they, nor can we,play suple jacks "so well
Our old leaders in secession, our Yankee
haters, have thrown a somersault, and are
now — loyal lyrguers and "persecuted,
Union men ' Our old negro trader., 'that
despised class' of dealers in .•11,9 1 1 and
blood," have become philanthropists, and
friends of Bier •.man and brother' The
most cruel and tyrannical are those who
have always regarded slavery as a sin, and
wished for its abolition The Sherman bill
has developed as much activity in Inking
the brick track, as did Bill Sherman when
he was sweeping through Georgia and the
two Carolinvi
„ Owing to the rheumatism aforesaid. we
move slowly and painfully, but "with the
beat intentions in the world"—wondering
o i
all the while t file agility ofmur more du
ple neighbor There is nu use for any
circus to c e;,,,tin'ittli We lint, men so
agile that th ost expert man in the ring
would feel ashamed of his clumsy attempts
at "ground anillofty tumbling.” after wit
noising their wonderful performances
tine of the things, which we are too still
and too rheumatic to do, is to toss a somer
sault and turn our backs on this deer old
larhl which gave us birth. l ,
We will tell our esteemed entemporary
what the "loyal North used t, think of
renegades, eye, , anil what the really noble
men anti woolen there think of them
,)et
When John Adams went 4.r—Hoglund after
our independence had been gained, George
11l jolted with kin one day upon 1119 being
under French influence Ili, noble -feply
Was, "1 most avow to y"nr grije•ty that I
ha , e ele, 411E4 , 011100 e but Inv ~,,. ...41,1,7 ' The
Emg answered quietly •• 're liiiiii i I wool will
neter,, hove any other.
Itts well known th.at the great painter,
Benjamin West, of Lenasyl•ania, went to
England before the Imerionn rebellion ---
The_kyud i , a i rsaage of the King and his hu
sint,s relations induce I him to remain in
Loudon after the war broke out iMe day
110020 4 Altril,. who were jealous of Irest's
influence with the King. spoke of a defeal
of the Americans win de West was in thorium
presence, hoping that, 1y.5...-,,sorrow there
would offend the Moonireh sins, perceiv
ing their object, •y' frankly to I lenrgo, •• I
am a loyal and grtieful s.iiiject to my King,
but I can never rejoice at any wtsforntnen
which befell my native land •' The king
cordially replied, "A noble answer, jilr
West, and arsure you Mat no min will to er
fall na Mr/ ethinalson who loves hie native la,1(1."
A kingly speech, worthy of the monarch of
a great nation ! We aro not sectional as
our worthy cotemporary thinks, for we be
lieve that there are millions of men in the
loyal North, who respond to the grand sen
timent of George Ill,and who have as much
respect for the Soubberner, who stands in
his lot prepared to share the Woof his pen
ple,as they hare contempt for then mounte
banks, who, through fetr of oonfisention or
greed of office, are stultifying thetnashres'
by insincere declarations and dishonest pro
fessions
THE WHITES AND NE
SO
lung
The Journal of Cammeree IS publi;
series or papers enndc i'• litorml Nile
on the South The I . ..flowing it So
I=EI=G!MITIMEGI
men of of all part', 10 it. itnfPllll,llol and
conclu kiln,er
If an election of army kin I were to he
held to theS'outh within the next mouth,
there is uo reasonoble doubt that thria
fourths of the negro •de !mild he cast
with the Souther° white rote There is
perfect accord between the large pot non of
the freedman and the wit Ito population
This to hut natural Toe uegrites were as
ardent enemies of the North as their 1114H
ten doming the war 'file, Lod no spet,iat
o Ire us to what questions wet 11110 heed 111
the contest. They oytut.ailtired with the
people who surrounded the'm dmd it the
oaths ofplicgitince were'iltstinetly tinder
/dud by the freedmen when it iv rolatiuis
axs to them, nine tenths of them would he
unable to say that they bad not lent wil
ling aid and comfort to the rebellion Har
ing stood firmly by their masters in the
trials of the war, they are still likely to
stand by them in all public questions. It
eeeme lobe from a knowledge and apprecta
twin of these facts that tho_nten who are
seeking to use the negro solo for partisan
purpose find it necessary to delude the poor
fellows with promises of a division of the
lands among them. The question for the
freedman now serious ought to be 'how to
establish a regular and permanent system
o f paid labor, and how to fix thesate erfpay
meat so as to approximate as nearly as
may be to the old rate—namely a support
for the laktrer and his family, in sickness
and health, childhood and old age. But
the interference of politioans is operating
to prevent the determination of these ques
tions and postpone the day of calm settliegi
down. It Is impossible to regard the speech
making mission. of Northern politicians 10
the Southern negroes as anything but in
• to them. It ie, feet adding the
J uri ""
final blow to their ruin as a people Un
less they settle down to work, and take the
position of laborers whose labor is oeties.
miry, and must be chetished and eared for,
they will rapidly perish, The suffrage is
in danger of proving that destruction of the
raee,, It would ordinarily take • generation
to learn the requirements of the new order
of things. Where the Interests of the em
ployers are so deeply involved in the edu
cation of the employed, the process of ac
commodation to the new system might be
much more rapid But the temptations to
idleness which political speakers are offer
ing them are too strong to be resisted by
their feeble intellects, and they are easily
led to ruin. They would
. go much faster
if the promiser t , Vern fulfilled. If the
lands were &sided among them, and they
were made to depend Upon thei r own tabor
for the product of their met farm., the
root would melt away In two or three
generations.
The Southern negro is very mush like
bot house plant. W. needs constant
son and advice. • Exposure le dangeroos.
It is astonishing to observe bow. many
.• • ~ 3.,
•
them Poem to be ill, haw few are free from
1 coughs and , indications of disease. They
l know nothing about taking care'of them
,lves --They require • advice ! watching
.knd conlitant help These are the general
intohs, while the erceptiuns serve by cqn
irnat to woke the common rule more visible
The full iNe, therefore, looks, doubtful to
the Southern people There is reason to
fear that the negro race will disappear ll
ready it is 'plain that it will not be able to
supply the dement for labor which is sure
to be made within d few years The Ind.-
catiins are that they will diminish from
year to year, while thedernand will increase
in mole rapid ratio If these.Auestions
were Itelt to the management of Southern
men they would he considered with great
care, nod the utmost attention would be
paid to the comfort and well' being of The
freedmen The best friends they hoore in
Ole world are Southern employers, nod their
worst enemies are those who, however
honestly, are seeking to divert them atten
tion from the primary question of bread
and clothingAand shelter, to the moth of
governing S great Juition Unfit at pres
ent to feed themselrer, they ought to he
spared the miserable deluiion of thinking
they are fit to make lawn for the world or
the greatest nation in h. The direction of
their Minds toward such subjects results in
their absolute destruction, phystesl as well
as mwral
i ere arc many reason+ f, believing
that the tendency of things in the South is
toward the breaking up of the old system
of large plantations employing many bawds
These will coal inue in some sect ions beeau se
no other system can be inade,tkl- work Me
cvnfolly Rut it will not he strange if the
general rule shall hereafter he more like
their at the Hoe clitst where the farmer culti
vates.a small rata, requiring but few hands
there comes in, however, the question of
emigration—whether it eau be turned to the
South, and how The world a history ban
shown that emigration does not tend to
warm climates. But hei'e are inducements
ouch as were never before land (meg
teeming with abundance, tick soil witch
rewards labor tau laid, the prospect of
crops which are .nore valuable than mines
of gold, the certainty that the soil will
yield support to the laborer and his family
from the time that the seed grows these
and ether reasons may tempt the emi
grant
—According to the Richmond Tones one
if the most distressing features of the day
"13 the extravagance of the people" Al
though it is patent to every one in posses
sion of any degree of intcligence that there
is impending a flint orushiug financial
trouble, and despite the fact that poverty
bas,bpen,maile the general lot of thepopti
lation of the South, on every aide we be
hold the evidences of a fearful carelessness
and a wanton disregard of the infallible in
dications intended to warn us and to check
the mad disposition to riot in luxury and
folly
"Women array themselves in the oodles
robes, and adorn themselves with the glit
tering gem game or fashion, who in their
homes are lialrfed end suffering from the
pinchings of hunger
"%len who cannot pay their board bills
who ere often obliged to torn off their tail
and washerwomen without pay, sport
elves in proad eleg Mee, tau lazy to
a d too unprincipled to spend only
i h Is their own
e these things elist, what , (itilC we
ill pe ' Cut honesty and mt. flourish'
A t47l .. 1
cherish thyr coastity and keep
it as uns and as the mete that bongs on
Dlllll . /1 temple f l' inert avoid the
dishonor of anal . ion or escape the
iemptoti,m to crime which their blind self
-I.ll.lllipellee li sure to create'
“fire present state of SOClely 111 Alorrles
1111 quite as corrupt as that which existed
immediately after tli! dvicovl•fry - tif4lVls con
tinent, in Spain awl in France, arid the
countries of Europe.! No purification can
be atitimpated until extray.ig ince is check •
( ed, and the people return to the obi fasig,
toned custon” which were %nt to prevail
prior to the demoralization provoked by
I the war in this country.
ork ci\
bat wli
• A Ite
Every thing 10,07 - 0 - P this reform to.
ciety, religioti,the political welfare, each
to seriously affected. Passion has ran riot
long enough: ❑is high time that the tecnnd
sober, thought should stay its earlier "
—U. evening a plant was hearing
Ll 4 little reelte Lit Sillidny school lee•
sou It Will in the 18th chapter of Mat
thew, wherein it relates of the m 11410119
indirlitiml who went about sowing titres,'
"What II m Imre '‘ the 14111 interrupted
to inquire
Johnny heeitatil
"fell me, my eon, what stare is "
^l nu hero had 'ern,' K.a Johnny ~cagi
M i t - s'own his eye and wrigilin; hit foot
"Had 'era t' said the agionistripipareut
opening his eyes rather wide, "ay, what
do you mean Johnny?"
"When you didn't come home for three
days last week," said Johnny, "I heard
mother tell Aunt Susan you wee °fr i es
tare." The Sunday sehriol lesson was
brought to an abrupt elose,and Johnny,who
knew too muillallogAther to sit up any,la
ter, was sent to bed
The CHH,E.T THIN() to THE MARKET
Many articles in this world are dear ; says
the Memphis Avalanche. Eggs arc always
deer about Christmas times,and chickens In
the first of the chicken twain - Vitt . 'ht
ever high are meats, birds, fish and vegeta
bles, there is one commodity that is al
ways cheap, dirty cheap—loyalty It
costs literally nothing, It certainly does
not coat money, for the poorest sot in the
lowest groggery who has not a copper to
invest for his-favorite grog, canproteabout
his loyalty. Dr. Johnson very truthfully
remarked that "patriotism was the last re
fuge of the scoundrel." The some may now
btaaid of loyalty, for the biggest scoun
drels—the men who are producing ftrife,
disorder, disunion and anarchy, claim to
the par exaelleuee orloyalists,
=What is the difference.halisaw.•
rifleman who shoots wide of a target, sad s
husband who blackens his wife's eyes? The
one mimes his mark and the other marks
his missei.
—Looking bad—Stermstown—elnee the
For lila %VA...RYAN
•THE OLD.MAIDS SOLILOQUY.
=IBM
I kn.w ,
Tho io( of old mli4.
lon fate by maattad , rtkr . , b drenled—
That the happsegt
I+ that of a wife,
tail true Immune., is Isle, wedded
Yet I cannit tlevine,
Why hiata repthe,
At n lot so tree from daficere;
rer net very lone
In my snag httle home, •
And rio reason !Thy I eh9uhldnepair.
\Viten a neighbor t owes in
There's au bustle or slim,
You con talk to dice) rat , at your awe
Ilnr e nice little chat, •
Of thi, awl of that.
And come waudal too, If you pica.
There'. no-baby to '•
And no !mina to mend,
In tlt4ty and torn links clothes—
No heads to brush,
No cries to hush,
From bruised little hugers Snit tins
No docking; to tlarn—•
NO "Biddy — to 'lam"
Ntefu•s, no trouble., no finery,
No boots Is tog here.
No erarata lying them
To he sought for. sure in:a hurry
Yet-I cannot den),
That unhappy sin 1—
Than pine - for sans une - to Alen,
'Tis something to 611.
A illlelbanti. warm ht.,
And ebildimoils, street winning mimes
To meet at the door,
When the day is o'er,
A form that M manly arid true—
And a heart that •lona
Respond* to tour own,
An.l beat. truly, and warmly for you
06 it osier will do,
Tu dream often no,
I'll not grate, e .44l will be Mill.
'Tie no use to try
The fast to deny,
That I'm a sad and lonely "old maid
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER
—The hostile,. of Pittsburg is said to rerv
esent al,ou tsl 1 1,000,000. ,
—A woman an Chicago has made $40,000
by a lucky. speculation in wheat
—flow to make Good Jam.—Crowd twenty
fashionnbly dressed ladies into one omnibus.
—No tune,tl a said, is, so popular, yet so
bard to Catch, as for-tune.
—What lettere IP the alphabet are the
most deetreetive to beauty ? D K (decay.)
—the Marilee' Massachusetts Legislature
has just defeated a soldsere bounty Jew by fif
teen votes.
—Chnse's evert had disumewa the Maxis
sippt injunction en4e "for want of juri.die
lion.
—Sumo women pilot their faces, and then
weep because it does nut make them beauti
ful They raise • hoc—nod cry
—Punch humanely hopes it will not be
necessary to suspends re enettnires well u the
habeas in Ireland.
—When hate married people pined through
the alphabet 01 loin? When they reach the
ba.bo •
—A man at Paw let, Vermont, has caaght
with one trap, set on one spot, sixty foxes,
thirty skunks, five coons and ten crows.
of odhcstie fume, iN ilr ing in
Newark in reduced cm:must:wee His glue
oisiOt to here mended his fortune.
—A cold inap has k Wed elf all the grass-
hoppers that threatened to overrun Texas.
little girl rn Sheyboygen, IVu swat—
idwed a noodle. Over a year ago, and a few days
since it came out at her knee.
--A boy preacher, Master Enoch Prober
ged 12 genre, haN appeared in Wale., and his
dinirers think he will eclipse Spurgeon.
—A Western exchange says, from presen t ,
appearance within five years Minneffita will
haven pop ton of over one million people,
—A li child bearing the text given out
at Church, "And theshild waxed strong," uk
oil • "Papa, how did they wax him ?"
—=.lligh prices and little consumption are
ruining the country. The ottly true measure of
safety is low prices and large consumption.
—A shoemaker in Lower Saxony, who has
smoked a pipe 1011101 A constantly front Ids
)outh, is now lld years of ago. ,
`The London .Star th ink, " It won Id he . a
blunder, nqd et en n crime, to r mate the sen
tence of death on the con' II mil is 4, inns.
bete to hear people telk mg bob and
one's bng4,'• as the robber said, when the con
stable ,wile eliseleg hint, and crying, ''Stop
thlef
•
—lt dem the United Stales gain
lour boon and a half more of sunshine by the
purehame of Sella flow merle more told we
gain ie not elated.
--4 Knowing Boy —"Yon want• Bo4glisg,
that's what you do,'• raid • parent' to *lt • un—
ruly know it, dad , but try to get:
along without out it," returntsl the boy.
—The matt who had 6, lower his shirt col
lar to pus under • radway bridge, arrived in
New York last week, Ile was laboring Artier
a eight attack of "collary" morbus.
—A man In Charleston, who two years ago
♦owed that he would not cut his hair or heard
anti? Jefersod Day is should be released, ham
just calltd upon a barber. •
EINE
—Theis►pension of the rails of • reline"
500 m flee long amounts In a hot summer's des ,
to nearly a quarter of • mile from the point of
the litreme eon trpotien in winter.
—P i prties prospectiteg for coal in kilt.,
65., have come upon a rein of hard, bitumin
ous coal three feet eleven .Inches thick, at •
depth of fifteen feet beneath the surface.
begun 'Soldiers' Orphan's Home' con
cern has been exposed in Columbus, Ohio, and
one Evan S. Shipley, the acting manager, and
0. Boughton and D. F. W ilhatemon, trustees,
banshee& arrested. .
--The 8l Louis Germans celebrated The
anniversary of the capture of Camp Jackson
the other day, how ♦lgorosfly, may be Judged
by the fact that 3.W100 &lees% of lager were
drunk on the 000 ILIAD.
—A youthful gentleman, speak ins of the
fashionable yellowish hair of •young beauty
mid enthusiastically that it was "pure gold..
"It ought to be," remarked a friend ; "It look.
like twenty four carrots."
—The richest member of the Conneecknst
Senate is en Irishman, whose property le wa
wa at $2,500,000, and whose daily humus Is
01,000. Neineade his money from an oil term
te Painsylvents, which he purchased for Sl>.
"THE SNOW"---LIFE 800 FATE Of A
BEAUTIFUL GIRL.
The beautiful poem entitled oThe Snow
which has been le frequently published on
soccont of charroine •tim and senti
ment, was , wrillen in foot by on. whq depict
tee her own melaboholy life in its lines.
The maiden name of the author was Do
ra Bkw. She was born and gni Into ere
ensitAitti in the Wabash Volley, Indians
Iter parents were plain, honorable peOple,
bieseed eriih plenty though not rich, as the
world gore
They loved their beautiful Dora, and be
stowed upon her an education Which very
few female's ever receive Traccomplish
went, her te th er's end tooth is next ambh
Qum was to wed her towoittll wealthy and
distinguished gentlfmon As is too ll often
the case, they:bad the falsl delusion that
the dauggter's will should' be aseriatted
upon the altar. of Mammon; and that
wenitb •wiambition should be preferred to
ore
N0:22
In IH3u , F S Lebstuto, and Doin Shaw
were married. Lentil= was a citizen, and
thetpo ..... or of immense proptrty In St.
Louie Being in the Wabash Valley on
business (or his Louie, be saw, loved 'and
wooed this young, beautiful and accomplish
ed woolen. He did not get per own, but
her parent's cons Fut, and the marriage that
followed, gran Hallowed by no Mee t save r
the pakof the rumbaed.
Taking' his brulkorne to his, aplendtd
palace in thy city, she was there given
everything that wealth could bestow Still
she pas not happy. Did you ever see a
contented eagle in a gilded cage?
The wife was at ante Intraduce4 to, and
became the admiration of the best people in
the eityl To the outteard world she ap
peared fhe happiest of mortals, illustrating
bow few there are who really know the se•
cret sorrow, of the human heart. She par.
ed her hours in splendid misery.
At that time the famous theatrical man►-
fr, Ben Dollar, had a fine company at
the St. Lom■ Theatre Ilia leading star
erne Mise Annette lace—no . Ines rettowed
for her noting mimic lib them her beams)
and many womanly virtues To ibis thea
tre Mr. and Mrs.iLeßsurn went oue night
and witnessed it play
Dora had never been inside • theatre be
fore, and before the curtain, fell upon the
seoond •ot, she he'd bawl • resolution
which would ehadgir.the whole course of
her life—she had determined to be an mi
tres, like Miss loco.
An interview with the manager was east:
ly obtained, who law in the aspirations of
the lady a chance to make a splendid hit,
and put gold in his puree Ile gave her
every encouragement, dismissed the idea of
her first assuming a second part, but assur
ed her, .eke should make her dsbe, in the
leading charactet of the play she had wit
nettsed—"Julto” in the 'ltunehback.' More
than encouraged, indeed completely resol
ved, Dora at once commenced the study of
the play and polishing a quick intellect,
she wan at least Water if the language in
a few days. Private relieves!' appeared to
give perfect satisfaotion to the manager, an
well as to his company—trained for that
paiticular purpose and for that otteaslon.--
this was kept from the husband.
One morning the oily was thrown into •
fever by an announcement in all the jour
nals, and upon all the bulletin boirds, that
"Miss Dora Shaw would appear that night
as Julia, in Sheridan Knowles' great play
entitled the Hunekbiik."
Lellaum and him friends wen struck u
If by a thunderboalt from Hum., Debit
entreated, appeled to, and threatened his
wife, and next the manager, and finally de
clared his intantipp k to murder herupon the
stage the moment she made her appearance,
Ali to no purpose. The manager duly bad
all this passed into streets, which of eonrae
increased the sensation, and strengthened
the desire to attend. Every ticket was
sold at 9 o'clock, and it were needless to
say, that when, night came, that place
of amusement occupied the thoughts of the
city.
The curtain-rose—Dora appeared—walk
ed, etammered, blushed and repeated her
part mechanically—like any school girl
reading her composition at an eaaminallon•
Still the audience was pleased, not by this
noting. but by the novelty of the °cession.
The next, third, fourth and fifth night.
were like the drat.
The morbid appetite of the public satia
ted with novelty, demanded good sating.—
This Dora could not supply. The audieace
fell off, the manager became restless, dis
satisfied, refused to offer a re-engagement,
but intimated that she had, beat go 10 moth
er city
In the meantime, Leßsum sued for di
vorce, which war- 'readily granted by tae
court. The next appearance of Den was
in New Orleans, where her former social
position was unknown, aniiicere she was
wholly thrown upen her merits as an ac
trees for success. It were 'median to
say, that she failed to elicit one Magi* plan
dit.
The remainder of the story is semi
told. Abandoned by friends, home, hat
band, pennyless, ohs fen —lo use her own
words—
'Fell, like the enowllakes, from human to hell;
Fell, to be trampled u ilth to tie etreet;
Fell, to be /wolfed, to he epit on and beat;
Pleading, •
Careini,
Dreading to die,
Selling ml soul to whoever would buy.
Dealing in shame for a runnel of brats!,
Listing the living, and fearing the dud::
Tux Wiar r eir , rsts DRIMILAILD —I die a
wretched a 1044 and I leave to the world
a worthless reputation, a wicked exemple,
and • memory only to tlt to perish.
I leave to my parents sorrow and bitter
ness of soul all the days of their lives.
I learr4u . sey brothera_and- sisters sruim — e i
and griql,Aand reproach, of their asqualst•
acs.
I leave to my wife a widowed and bye.
ken lie 4 ' t ad a life of lonely struagllog,
want le4onffering:
I leave I. my ohildren a tainted name, •
ruined pooldlort ; • pitiful ignorance. sad"
the mortifying recollection or • father who" , ..
by his life disgraaed htunaalty, Slid,st his
premature death joined the great °employ
of those who ere to enter the kilklidall
of Glad.
—A mall oomlog home late one eight, e
Hubs more thou hollow" oeer,fooling thiralg,
iroottrod a glass of niter mid drank it In
dotes on he owalloifeh a hall of silk that
lay is the bottom of - the Mumbler, the sad
oatobingla big tooth. Feedbag something
to his mouth, and not knowing what it was
he began palling at tho end, the little ban
unrol/log, he soon had metal foot in his
hoodee and still no end, appßootip. Tow*
had, he shouted at the top of his vole%
"Wife 1 wife I I say, .wits I same heal 1 .1
am annealing I"
—Two illegitimate obildres, is Masi*.
nail, have mod es hid heirs fir the pm
, arty dash. parents, mad the emit here
sided he their &Tor.
—lf you would lqok Nprogella role
old ago don't "tip" io row youtk.